{"id":715,"date":"2020-04-20T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T18:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/?page_id=715"},"modified":"2020-12-03T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:44:44","slug":"miscellaneous","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/home\/miscellaneous\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Author: Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809 &#8211; 1849)<br>Illustrator: Gustave Dor\u00e9 (French, 1832 &#8211; 1883)<br>Engraver: Francis Scott King (American, 1850 &#8211; 1913)<br>The Raven. Illustrated by Gustave Dor\u00e9. New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1884.<br>Special Collections<br>Gift of C. Porter Schutt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author: Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809 &#8211; 1849)<br>Illustrator: Gustave Dor\u00e9 (French, 1832 &#8211; 1883)<br>Engraver: Francis Scott King (American, 1850 &#8211; 1913)<br>[Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before]<br>wood engraving on paper<\/strong><br><br>This enigmatic image is paired with a specific line from Poe\u2019s poem\u00a0<em>The Raven<\/em>: \u201cDoubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.\u201d Dor\u00e9\u2019s approach to illustration in this impressive volume is largely evocative, instilling a sense of mystery and reflecting the gloom of the poem. His images are not literal visual descriptions of the text, but show an artist responding to and interpreting an author\u2019s work. Francis Scott King engraved Dor\u00e9\u2019s image for this volume. Several different engravers were engaged to produce over 25 illustrations in this version of\u00a0<em>The Raven<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author: Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809 &#8211; 1849)<br>Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley (British, 1872 &#8211; 1898)<br>The Black Cat, 1901<br>engraving on paper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This graphically arresting yet enigmatically spare frontal image of a woman with a cat on her head relies on clean outlining and flat areas of black and white. While at first glance, it may not appear to convey narrative intent, here Aubrey Beardsley communicates many details of a climactic moment from Edgar Allen Poe\u2019s short story, \u201cThe Black Cat\u201d (1845). Herbert S. Stone &amp; Company\u2019s portfolio was published based on Beardsley\u2019s drawings originally rendered in 1894.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author: Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809 &#8211; 1849)<br>Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley (British, 1872 &#8211; 1898)<br>Four Illustrations for the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe drawn by Aubrey Beardsley.<br>Chicago: Herbert S. Stone &amp; Company, 1901<br>Copy 56 of 250<br>Special Collections<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809 &#8211; 1849)Illustrator: Gustave Dor\u00e9 (French, 1832 &#8211; 1883)Engraver: Francis Scott King (American, 1850 &#8211; 1913)The Raven. Illustrated by Gustave Dor\u00e9. New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1884.Special CollectionsGift of C. Porter Schutt [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Author: Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809 &#8211; 1849)Illustrator: Gustave Dor\u00e9 (French, 1832 &#8211; 1883)Engraver: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715\/revisions\/1020"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/drawing-connections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}